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What is the funniest, laugh-out-loud book you’ve read so far?

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Robin

The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove. Can’t remember who wrote it. It was a gag gift from a college buddy…I made the mistake of saying “I’ll read anything…”

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Angela

Christopher Moore is the author

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Kathleen

Christopher Moore

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Sandra

I have that one but haven’t read it yet!

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Amy

His book, Lamb, is hilarious!

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Michele

Anything he writes is hilarious!

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Jody

A Dirty Job will make you laugh, too! “Kitty!!”

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Keri

I just finished it last night. I stumbled across his books at the library and it’s the 3rd one I’ve read. He’s hilarious!

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Kathleen

@Amy , I think Lamb should have made the list.

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Amy

@Kathleen Agreed! I recommend it all the time.

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Emily

Bossypants by Tina Fey.

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Dana

Also, Yes Please by Amy Poehler

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William

I really enjoyed Bossypants, but I didn’t think it was that funny. Definitely a book I recommend. Guess humor is in the eye of the laugher. 🙂

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Barbara

Walk In the Woods by Bill Bryson.

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Andrea

Anything by Bill Bryson is dangerous in public places ?

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StacyQuestion author

Agree. I almost had to stop reading Notes from a Small Island while on an international flight because everyone was asleep and I was laughing so hard, trying to be quiet.

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Barbara

@Stacy Same happened to me with his “In a Sunburned Country”

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Carolyn

Also the Life and Times of the Thunderbolt kid

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Cat

Anything by Kinky Friedman!

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Nicole

Anything by Nora Ephron!

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Ginna

the cracker factory

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Alisa

Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy O’Toole, runner up goes to Straight Man by Richard Russo

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Angela

Any of the Sweet Potato Queens books by Jill Conner Browne!

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Tess

Lamb – The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore.

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Amy

Yes!

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Jule

I hate to admit this, but the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich

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Kathy

I love Grandma!

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Sandra

.. yes .. the Stephanie Plum books are wonderful .. I was listening to one in my car, on the way home from work, laughing out loud, stopped at a stop-light, hoping someone wasn’t looking, because I couldn’t stop laughing!!

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Ginny

Bucking the Sarge by Christopher Paul Curtis

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Janice

“The Good Lord Bird “ by James McBride.

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AnnMarie

She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb.

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Ami

Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson. It also made me sob. She’s amazing.

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Gayle

I loved her first one, “Let’s Pretend this Never Happened.” Hilarious!

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Ami

Me too! Both books are great!

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Christine

I agree!

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Keri

I listened to the audio book. She is so funny!

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Kristin

Dad is Fat – Jim Gaffgan

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Elizabeth

Food- A Love Story by Jim Gaffigan

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Kelly

Shit my Dad says

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Emily

My husband would say A Confederacy of Dunces.
I would say something by Bill Bryson or maybe Cannery Row.

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Alison

There’s a Porcupine in my Outhouse by Michael Tougias

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Neva

The Hot Flash Club by Nancy Thayer

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Kathy

Catch-22. Also heartbreaking.

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Diana

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.

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Charly

Me Talk Pretty One Day

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Wittney

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Krystal

Good Omens

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Debbie

Richard Kadrey Aloha from hell

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Maya

Me Talk Pretty by David Sedaris.

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Laura

This may sound kinda nerdy but I laughed a lot at Pickwick Papers by Dickens.

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Diane

“Are You there Vodka, it’s me Chelsea” by Chelsea Handler.

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Deanna

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir by Jenny Lawson

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Chelsea

??Yes!! I laughed out loud through the whole book. ❤️

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Larissa

PG Wodehouse, Patrick McManus, Bill Bryson- and depending on your taste Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

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Maribel

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

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Billy

Ford Prefect: “You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s rather unpleasantly like being drunk.”
Arthur Dent: “What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”
Ford Prefect: “Ask a glass of water.”

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Deborah

Bossypants by Tina Fey

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Mary

Agree

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Amy

The opening chapter from This is where I leave you by Jonathon Tropper. Also Something Missing by Matthew Dicks. And the chapter on night training sled dogs in Winterdance by Gary Paulsen.

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Susan

Catch 22. Read the book, the movie is not nearly as good

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Caroline

Any of Louise Rennison’s books. The Georgia Nicholson series had me snort-laughing all the way through high school!

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Kathy

Almost anything by David sedaris, holidays on ice, him as an elf at Macy’s Santaland had me crying

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Shannon

The story “Rooster at the Hitching Post” gets me every time I read it.

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Sharon

I borrowed Sedaris’ boxed set audiobooks a couple of days ago. I’m driving from NorCal to SoCal and back next week and I’m hoping I don’t have to pull over from laughing so hard.

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Amber

SPACE OPERA by catherynne valente

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Grace

Bossypants

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Tracey

The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank and anything else by Erma Bombeck.

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Kaye

Gosh! I miss her! She was so funny!

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Tracey

She was such a great writer. I miss her too!

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Graciela

I’m a stranger here myself. Bill Bryson

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Dewitt

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

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Jennifer

A Walk in the Woods

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Stacie

Flung!

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Michelle

Absolutely!!!

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Carol

The Lucia books (the whole series but especially Mapp and Lucia) by EF Benson. And A Confederacy of Dunces.

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Amy

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson. I cry laughing every time I read it.

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Mark

Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan. Unfortunately, it’s been out of print for a while.

Also, Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin.

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Barb

Joe Keenan wrote a couple of books that were hilarious!

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Patricia

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson! Page 19 is worth the price of the book alone! Nearly fell out of bed I was laughing so hard!

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Tama

David Sedaris BARREL FEVER

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Nancy

I loved A Walk in the Woods

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Sharon

Junior book Hank the Cowdog by John Erickson

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Deborah

Catchb22 was very funny.

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Laurie

A Confederacy of Dunces!

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Debborah

Anything by David Sedarus

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Cecily

Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot

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April

@Jennifer ‘s books

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Jeanette

Christopher Moore’s Lamb. Hilarious!

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Heather

Such a hilarious book! I loved it too.

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Kathy

That was the first book that popped into my mind!

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Linda

Bill Bryson’s Tales of a Thunderbolt Kid

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Cori

Santaland Diaries by David Sedaris. I have to read it out loud to anyone who will listen and it cracks me up every time! Listening to Mr. Sedaris read it is even funnier!

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Debborah

Yes…love his audio books.

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Tama

Listening to David Sedaris read Santaland Diaries on NPR every Christmas is a family tradition! Never fails to bring us all to tears laughing! ?

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Martha

@Tama that’s the best. A holiday tradition.

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Cherie

I listen every year when it’s aired on NPR

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Cherie

Nora Ephron I feel bad about my neck

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Linda

The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw
By: Patrick McManus ?

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Larissa

We love reading his books around the camping fire instead of telling scary stories.

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Colin

Dead Souls by Gogol

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Claire

A Man Called Ove was really good.

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Joy

What made you laugh.?

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Claire

The dialog was just hilarious. Especially Ove’s interactions with his new neighbors.

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Sheryl

Parts are hilarious, parts are sweet, parts are sad. Such a great book.

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Joy

The American version is being filmed with Tom Hanks as Ove… I’m not sure if he’s a good fit.. we’ll see

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Sheryl

@Joy I’m not sure either. And I loved the original movie nearly as much as the book.

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Janet

The Ditches of Edison County

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Wanda

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy still makes me laugh out loud.

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Tita

The World According to Garp

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Tori

A man called Ove

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Norma

I laughed out loud while reading the Newbery winner, Dead End in Norvelt.

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Christine

Early Stephanie plum series by Janet Evonovich

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Debbie

I agree Christine! Hysterical! ?

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Kimberly

Stephanie Plum Series by Janet Evanovich. I was reading it in bed one night and had to leave the room because I couldn’t stop laughing and I was waking up my husband.

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Steve-Kristen

Lula and Grandma Mazur are always so funny!!

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Kathryn

Bossy pants by Tina Fey

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Dionne

The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish. I suggest listening to the audio version. It’s HILARIOUS!!!

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Jaime

Shit my Dad Says

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Heather

Listened to this on a long road trip. U laughed until I cried. Best ever!

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Kimberly

THAT looks AMAZING!!!

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Sharon

I just borrowed the audiobook for a road trip. Too many readers recommended it for me to pass on it.

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Sharon

The Family Fang

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Sally

Bitter is the New Black: Confessions of a Condescending, Egomaniacal, Self-Centered Smartass, Or, Why You Should Never Carry A Prada Bag to the Unemployment Office by Jen Lancaster.

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Pam

The Winshaw Legacy or What A Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe. Also, I like anything by Terry Pratchett. I’m surprised none of his books were on the TGAR list!

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Beth

Although it’s not on the list, “Less” is hilarious (this year’s Pulitzer for fiction)

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Ann

This Is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper

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Heather

Tina Fey’s Bossypants, I laughed so hard I had tears streaming down my face.

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Tammy

Good Omens … and any time Jenks opened his mouth in The Hollows series?

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Laurice

Jenks is the only thing I miss since giving up on that series.

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Mayda

Following. (I could use a good laugh during my commute.)

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Beth

Tales of the City by Armstead Maupin

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Kim

World According to Garp

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Cynthia

A Prayer for a Owen Meany.

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Abe

Don Quixote made me laugh way more than I would have thought a book from that long ago would have. Dickens is also hilarious at times.

David Sedaris is funny, the best one of his that I’ve seen is When You Are Engulfed In Flames. I should also mention Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide series.

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Catherine

Love David Sedaris. His stories are so funny

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Billy

There were several humorous passages in “Don Quixote” and every one of Douglas Adams’ books that I read, “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, “Life the Universe and Everything”, “So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish”, “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, “Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency” and “The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul”, are hilarious!

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Ivan

Sellavision by Augusten Burroughs

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Deborah

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl is very funny. Also Confessions of a Shopaholic.

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Barb

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson.

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Erin

Bright Lights, Big Ass: A Self-Indulgent, Surly, Ex-Sorority Girl’s Guide to Why It Often Sucks in the City, or Who Are These Idiots and Why Do They All Live Next Door to Me? by Jen Lancaster

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Michelle

The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared. Hilarious!

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Laura

I’ve been wanting to read this.

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Carole

In God We Trust, All The Rest Pay Cash by Jean Sheperd

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Alena

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series

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Liz

Where’d You Go Bernadette. Laughed so hard I cried.

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Andrea

Dave Barry’s Homes and Other Black Holes. I was reading mostly in bed at night when I read that. My husband made me leave the bedroom. 🙂

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Sarah

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson.

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Susan

Agree! Laugh out loud funny.

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Melinda

Lamb by Christopher Moore

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Lori

The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window by Jonas Jonasson

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Cindy

Bossy Pants!

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Doris

Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods”

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Paula

Richard Ford’s books about Frank Bascombe are pretty humorous. Similar to Richard Russo in some ways, also very funny

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Jacqueline

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. I would laugh so hard that I wouldn’t be able to breathe. And then the tears in my eyes and I’d cry/ laugh.

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Joanna

Same here!

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Meredith

thought i might get taken off the subway as appearing to be a danger to myself or others. i laughed myself info tears.

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Mary

The Rosie Project

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Valerie

Phantom Tollboth. I was reading out loud and kept cracking up laughing.

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Ruby

Naked. David sedaris

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Jenn

I liked Bossy Pants, particularly lists ing to it on audio, but L.A.M.B. by Christopher Moore. I also really loved A Dirty Job, as well as his vampire series, and any others of his I’ve read.

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Beth

I adore Christopher Moore.

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Jody

He is Amazing!

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Karen

The Thurber Carnival, especially the story about the night the ghost got in. Hilarious!

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Tracy

The Iron Druid series by Kevin Hearne

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Teri

Any of the Stephanie Plum series – very funny and always entertaining!

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Dana

Anything by Caral Hissan!

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Tracy

PS I Love You

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Laurice

OMG this book was hilarious!!

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Joanna

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris. Absolutely hilarious!

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Patti

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg.

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Andrea

Brain Droppings by George Carlin.

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Maria

Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff by Christopher Moore

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Lynette

One of my favorites! Named our dog Biff…

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Julie

Yes! Love Biff.

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Cynthia

Crazy in Alabama

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Jane

Me Talk Pretty. DAVID SEDARIS

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Beth

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

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Sharon

Any Janet Evanovich OF the Plums series.

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Alisa

A Girl Named Zippy, by Haven Kimmel. And yes, I even laughed so hard I snorted. More than once.

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Cheryl

OMG! I forgot aboutthat book. I loved it!

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Eleanor

Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing – read it to my class every year – could not read with a straight face!

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Ami

Her follow up, “She got up off the couch” is great too.

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Sue

@Eleanor Junie B Jones does that for me!

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Kimberly

YES! I remember reading Junie B Jones Alohaha to my kids when they were young, and there was a part where I couldn’t get though because I was laughing so hard. I had to hand it over and tell them to read that part themselves. LOL

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Zacarías

Don Quixote

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Chelsea

Following

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Monty

Janet Evanovich series. I love all her books.

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Steve-Kristen

Same here!!

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Jessie

a walk in the woods and the Chet and Bernie series

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Lenore

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson.

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Sherrie

Roughing It

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Maude

Do you mean Roughing It by Mark Twain?

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Sherrie

@Maude yes. sorry. Should have said that

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Emily

Shit My Dad Says. It was hysterical ?

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Judith

Read some funny parts in The Help.

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Mary

Gary Paulsen’s Winterdance

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Ingrid

The Road to Welllville by T.C. Boyle

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Chere

Austenland by Shannon Hale

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Julie

Rainey.

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Janet

Furiously Happy and Let’s Pretend This Never Happened – both by Jennie Lawson, aka The Blogess

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Sherrie

let’s Pretend This Never Happened was ?

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Janet

I was laughing so hard in the airport reading it!

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Gail

Sweet Potato Queens by Jill Conner Browne. Totally hilarious!

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Marilyn

Is this a novel?

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Gail

@Marilyn Yes

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Marilyn

@Gailthx

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Yvette

Augustus McCrae is hilarious in Lonesome Dove. He made me laugh out loud unexpectantly all throughout the book. But then I cried great sobs like I’ve never cried before so beware.

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Deb

I just rewatched the mini-series….he is one of my all time favorite characters.

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Marshall

Anything Wodehouse: Right Ho, Jeeves

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Steve-Kristen

Any of the Stephanie Plum series books by Janet Evanovich. Her characters are ALL so funny. Lula and Grandma Mazur are my favorite.

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Christine

Yes! The books have gotten predictable, but I just love spending time with the characters. =)

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Suzzanne

The Rosie Project

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Patti

I was trying to remember this books name thanks! So funny

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Rebecka

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

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Mayda

LOVED this book.

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Rebecka

I misremembered the title, but not the laughs!

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Rebecka

Maybe I should read it again. Time for some comic relief. Or, would the Confederacy of Dunces be more appropriate?

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Diane

Anything by Jen Lancaster

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Karen

Me Talk Pretty someday

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Stacey

Yes!

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Irena

Some chapters of “Shock Value” by John Waters and the first two Bridget Jones books. Had to be my mind at certain points of my life…

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Jill

Anything by Erma Bombeck.

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Michelle

Angela’s Ashes believe it or not!

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Yvette

I believe it.

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Lorraine

David Sedaris – When You Are Engulfed in Flames

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Ryan

Barrel Fever by David Sedaris.

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Gloria

A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson

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Michael

Wanda Hickeys Night of Golden Memory’s. Gene Shepherd

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Emily

All Janet Evanovich .my children would look at me like I was crazy
Laughing hysterically while I was reading

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Anna

The Stephanie Plum series

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Marglen

Great late night reading to go to bed with a smile on your face. Enjoyed all her books.

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Marion

A Walk in the Woods!

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Cheryl

Sophie Kinsella’s Confessions of a Shopaholic, Janet Evanovich’s One for the Money, Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods, and Fannie Flagg’s Can’t Wait To Get To Heaven.

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Ami

Night of the Avenging Blowfish: A Novel of Covert Operations, Love, and Luncheon Meat by John Welter

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Elyse

I Remember Nothing, by Nora Ephron. Quite of few of hers make me laugh.

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Barb

I forgot Bonk (or pretty much anything else) by Mary Roach. Amazing stuff.

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Lynn

Just about anything by her is funny, even if the topic isn’t.

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Kimberly

Tina Fey Bossypants.

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Christy

Can you keep a secret by Sophie Kinsella, hilarious!!

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Patricia

Tina Fey’s book, Bossypants

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Ruth

Kiss My Tiara

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Lauralyn

Dan Jenkins, You Gotta Play Hurt

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Judy

Traveling Mercies- Anne Lamott

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Robin

The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore.

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Janice

Funniest book ever, “The Rosie Project” by Graeme Simsion!

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Janet

That one is good!

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Becky

John Grisham’s Skipping Christmas.

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Karen

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh

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Laurice

Yes!!!

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Denise

Walking in circles before lying down…I would read this on the bus to school. I’m sure people thought I was a lunatic because I was giggling and laughing out loud. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117370.Walking_in_Circles_Before_Lying_Down

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Bobbie

Bossy Pants

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Abbey

Yeeeees!! I commented to say the same! Tina Fey is HILARIOUS!

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Bobbie

@Abbey the best was listening to her read it. We were driving across the country and my husband kept looking at me like I was crazy because I had had phones on.

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Abbey

@Bobbie I’d love to listen to her read it! The first time I read it, I was reading in bed and kept laughing so hard that I kept waking my husband up! My favorite anecdote was her disaster honeymoon story!

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LCat

100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

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David

Why Not Me by Al Franken, Pest Control and The Organ Grinders by Bill Fitzhugh, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, anything by Kinky Friedman, and HappinessTM by Will Ferguson are all hilarious!

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David

Oh – also Evelyn Waugh! Scoop, Put Out More Flags, etc.

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Christine

The Stephanie Plum books…

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Geni

I laughed a lot when I read “The Rosie Project.” I with that the sequel had the same charm, but it didn’t.

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Kevin

“The Sot-Weed Factor” by John Barth – It’s a hilarious, bawdy, rip-roaring adventure story in the mock style of Tobias Smollett, Henry Fielding, and those other great 18th century picaresque novelists. Read it and you’ll never look at an eggplant the same way again.

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Taina

Jenny Lawson – Furiously Happy

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Jan

Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris

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Megan

I love, love, love David Sedaris! This should be on season 2 of The Great American Read!

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Jan

@Megan, I agree!

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Cindy

The World According to Garp.

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Terry

@Kevin Surprised that someone else knows of this book. It has been many years since I read it, but I do not remember that is was funny.

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Kevin

Terry Fay Malcheski Lamberth I suppose it depends on what you find funny and some of it is dependent on knowing the historical and cultural context. But I remember when I was coming home to San Diego after seeing an opera in Los Angeles. I’d stopped at my usual way station, a Denny’s in Commerce, CA, and started reading that book while waiting for and then eating my much-belated dinner. By the time I got to the scene of the two dons messing with poor Ebenezer by saying that his singing “Flow My Tears” was blasphemous, I was snorting with laughter, and when Henry More and Isaac Newton patched up their quarrel about Platonic idealism with a homosexual tryst, I was doubled up with tears streaming down my face. I’m laughing out loud right now just recalling my emotions. ? Even the language of the book got me going from the first. I love Barth’s paragraph-long first sentence. It’s my favorite opening line because it sets up the rest of the book beautifully. Within that one sentence, I was introduced to Ebenezer Cooke, knew him for a poetaster, and I knew that this was going to be a very arch, satirical take on the 18th century novel.

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Jody

Anything Christopher Moore. I know it is off topic a bit, but once I was reading on the toilet (the only way to read once you have kids) and I was SOBBING. I could barely breathe. My husband practically kicked the door in to get to me (he picked the lock). All I could do was hold up the paperback and whimper, “Her mom died.” He just shook his head, locked the door, pulled it close and told the kids to heat up some spaghettios because Mom wasn’t cooking dinner. God, I wish I could remember what book it was.

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Sara

I either love his books or hate them. There is no in between for me. That being said, I just finished Noir and loved it!

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Jody

@Sara just picked it up from hold at the library Friday! Slow start, but I am all in.

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April

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom. surprise! it’s very different from the movie! i laughed out loud thru the whole book 😀

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Jody

I have not read it, but someone who did told me not to read it because it made her not like Forrest anymore?

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April

well, that may have been her experience, but not mine. he’s not sweet little innocent Tom Hanks in the book- he swears, he lives with Jenny & they have sex (the book isn’t descriptive tho), he’s a normal human being. don’t go into the book thinking you’re gonna get the movie- there are some things that match up, but the book is so much better & funny, but still has touching moments too. anyone i’ve recommended it to loved it 🙂

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Jody

@April , I have been curious for years. Will add it to my list. If for no other reason, something to argue with her about. When you have been best friends for 30 years. Lol

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Sara

Anything David Sedaris writes!

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Ellen

Laugh and cry with the next sentence. Angela’s Ashes by far!

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Becky

I love A Long Way from Chicago. It’s a children’s chapter book. The grandma is hilarious.

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Tamara

Have you read the one by Frederick Backman called My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry ?

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Erin

In death series from J.D. Robb

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Andrea

Not high drama but just pure fun …. the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.

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Pam

Ha! I laugh every time I think of Cluck in a Bucket!

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Luann

Auntie Mame.

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Geni

this one is on my TBR list. I LOVE the movie with Rosalind. Russel.

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Luann

@Geni, I have not read Patrick Dennis’s books for many years, but I remember all of them as hilarious.

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Geni

@Luann I know my library has Auntie Mame. Not sure if they have his other books. Will have to check and see.

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Bonnie

The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett, David Sedaris.

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Sherrie

The Rosie Project. The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid – Bill Bryson. This was my life growing up. The Ove book, made me laugh and cry. Patrick Dennis’ books.

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Luann

Also anything by Christopher Buckley. Thank You For Smoking is a real hoot.

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Denise

Catch-22

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Christi

Born A Crime by Trevor Noah

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Gretchen

The Sweet Potato Queens’ Book of Love. Hysterical.

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Sam

Catch-22 for sure. I read it on my subway commute, so there was a lot of laughing in public and probably looking deranged.

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Robin

Millie’s Fling by Jill Mansell – a beach book with a brain!

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Gageby

Anything by Louis Grizzard. Back in the carpool days, my children would not let drive and listen to Louis Grizzard.

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Luann

I love James Thurber’s stories, but in particular “The Night the Bed Fell” and “The Day the Dam Broke.”

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Kevin

For those interested, both these stories are in “My Life and Hard Times”, which can be downloaded for free in epub format from Project Gutenberg Canada (those with Kindles can get it converted to mobi format at Online Convert).

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Luann

@Kevin, most everything Thurber can be found in a collection called “The Thurber Carnival.” I’ve bought many used copies over the years; not sure if it is in print. His cartoons are priceless.

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Kevin

@Luann Yes, I also have “The Thurber Carnival”, but, sadly, it’s not available for free download like the PG Canada e-book is.

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Luann

@Kevin, good to know!

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Merla

The Stephanie Plum series cracks me up every time

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Valerie

This is my answer toi

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Laurice

Yes!!

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Dixie

Any book by Patrick McManus, or They Shoot Canoes Dont They.

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Kathleen

almost anything by Nick Hornsby ~

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Laura

A Confederacy of Dunces!

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Robin

Agree, just finished audio version. Very funny.

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Sharon

Anything by David Sedaris

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Stephen

Open House by Elizabeth Berg and anything by FannieFlagg

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Susanne

Why Me, a Dortmunder novel by Donald Westlake. Actually any Dortmunder story. He is a thief with bad luck. His criminal projects turn disastrous every time.

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Mary

The World According to Garp, there is a discussion at the shore about looking out for “the under toad”. I think about that discussion 30 years later and still giggle!

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Cynthia

Yes, forgot how much John Irving can make us laugh and cry at the same time…

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Laurice

When he bit that dog!!

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Luann

And how can we forget “The Princess Bride?”

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Dorothy

Running with Scissors.

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Paris

The movie was hilarious too

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Michele

A Walk In the Woods, by Bill Bryson

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Shelly

I loved his dry humor!

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Kim

Bitter is the New Black by Jen Lancaster!

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Renee

Where’d you go Bernadette? By Maria Semple

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Janet

Yes!

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Danette

Lamb by Christopher Moore

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Mary

The Miss Julia books by Ann Ross. And Janet Evanovich. Can’t read heavy and serious all the time.

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Pl

Fannie Flagg books and all of the Jeeves and Wooster books by P.G. Wodehouse.

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Kevin

I agree with the part about Wodehouse, except for “Ring for Jeeves”. But, technically speaking, that isn’t a Jeeves and Wooster book because Bertie Wooster doesn’t appear in it. William Rowcester is the sub for Bertie, and I hated him so very much. But everything else is gem-like perfection.

I’ve also branched out into Wodehouse’s other characters. I’ve read all the Mr. Mulliner short stories (which are hilarious), and I’ve read one Drones Club collection, “Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets”, and “Something Fresh”, “Blandings Castle and Elsewhere”, and most recently “Summer Lightning” in the Lord Emsworth/Blandings Castle series. (I’ve also watched the series “Blandings”, “Jeeves and Wooster”, and “Wodehouse Playhouse” and loved them all.)

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Kevin

Thanks! ?

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Cynthia

Definitely a huge Wodehouse fan!

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Pl

@Cynthia women are welcome to join. Well, probably not Aunts.

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Mary

For some reason funny books don’t appeal to me.

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Ariana

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris. Always listen to his audiobooks and laugh so hard my belly hurts.

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Donna

can’t wait to get to heaven by fannie flagg

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Kathleen

So glad to see this. I’m about to start reading it.

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Mary

Hissy Fit by Mary Kay Andrews or Confessions Of a Sweet Potato Queen

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Suzanne

Sweet Potato Queen is hysterical

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Mary

@Suzanne the best…I still want to go to the parade

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Suzanne

@Mary me too or start one of my own !

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Mary

@Suzanne. Me too

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Kathrin

The Hitchhikers Guide-Series.

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Theri

Diary of a Wimpy Kid by Jeff Kinney.

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Margaret

Where you go Bernadette?

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Janet

Yes!

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David

David Sedaris Me Talk Pretty one day

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Linda

I though the Centerville Ghost was hilarious

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Linda

CANTERVILLE, STUPID AUTOCORRECT

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Carolina

Listening to Tina Fey’s Bossypants had me rolling while commuting to work

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Katy

Anything by Jennifer Cruisie

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Brenda

As You Wish by Cary Elwes (I cried outloud too).

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Angela

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

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Felecia

The Rosie Project

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Judie

The Coincidence of Coconut Cake — Light, funny — and the coconut cake recipe is fantastic. A waiter in a restaurant who doesn’t like coconut cake said it was to die for. lol

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Hunter

THE GUN SELLER, by Hugh Laurie

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Jessica

Jen Lancaster. All of her memoirs are laugh out loud.

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Laura

I gave some of my books to my sister who laughed so hard on a transatlantic flight that other passengers thought something was wrong. (In one, I remember a very memorable scene in the doctor’s office, her paper dressing gown tears apart and she staples it together! )

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Carla

Any book by Janet Evonovich The Stephanie Plum series. They are crazy

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Chris

The Rosie books

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Dawn

I listened to some of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books while driving to and from work. I laughed so much, I wonder if any other drivers saw me

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Tracy

I read the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid to my children on a camping trip once. We were all in tears – so funny!

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Sherry

The Dreyfus Affair: A Love Story.

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Dana

Believe it or not The Outsiders as one minute you’re laughing and the next minute you’re crying

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Gail

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler was lol in last half of the book.

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Don

Anything by Patrick Dennis, Carl Hiaasen or Tim Dorsey.

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Linda

Holiday on Ice by David Sedaris.

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Laura

Yes! Especially the one about Dutch Santa Claus!

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Linda

Crumpet the Elf.

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Sharon

Janet Evonivich’s Stephenie Plum’s series. OMG so funny ?

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Laurice

Yesssssss!!!

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Coupe

So true. Love Lula and Grandma Mazur

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Janet

I love me some Laurie Notaro.

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Tracy

She’s hilarious and underrated.

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Kay

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. I was manning a booth alone in a mall. I was laughing out loud and crying!

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Roberta

Nev Fountain’s Mervyn Stone mysteries and Rob Shearman’s short stories.

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Amy

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.

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Dana

And if you wanna know about books on tape all gosh I listen to quite a number of those 2 Harry Potter primarily and Beverly Cleary among them

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Stephanie

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg

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Joanne

Anything by Dave Barry or Lewis Grizzard.

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Rex

“Under the Midnight Stars ,” Zane Grey

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Yesenia

A Man Called Ove (it made me lol a lot but it also made me cry) and Born A Crime by Trevor Noah (audiobook version)

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Charlene

Lawn Boy by Gary Paulson.

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Betsey

Bridget Jones Diary, Catch-22,

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Betsey

Thank you all for your recommendations!

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Ann

A Confederacy of Dunces

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Amy

Anything I’ve ever read by Christopher Paul Curtis has made me laugh out loud.

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Laura

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris – shameful laughing out loud in an airport, and I’d do it again?

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Robert

Three Bags Full: a sheep detective story by Leonie Swan (German writer in translation). But it’s Irish sheep — non stop laughing.

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Suzanne

Loved this book!

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Debbie

An Uncommon Reader

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Jennifer

Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett

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Laurice

This book was SO FUNNY!

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Terrence

Catch 22

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Nancy

Confederacy of Dunces, Tourist Season and most anything from Carl Hiaasen, I’ll Take It by Paul Rudnick.

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Nancy

I forgot to mention Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

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Joan

“Heartburn” Nora Ephron

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Gwenette

“A Walk in the Woods” by Bill Bryson

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Cindy

Yes that is a good one.

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Priscilla

The Rosie Project. By Graeme Simsion!

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Jessica

I got this free when it first came out and haven’t read it!

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Janet

You

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Victoria

Yes, The Rosie Project was great!

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Jeanne

Laughing Matters, anthology edited by Gene Shalit.

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Genevieve

Amy Falls Down by Jincy Willett.

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Molly

Let’s Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson. Or Shit My Dad Says by Justin Halpern.

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Jessica

I just got the Jenny Lawson, she’s fantastic!

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Laura

Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man by Fannie Flagg

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Nicki

fear & loathing in las vegas or naked, by david sedaris

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Penny

Fatherhood by Bill Cosby

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Cynthia

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher. Hilarious!

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Vicki

Anything by Carl Hiaasen!!! I’m originally from Florida so I know, have met or have seen so many of his crazy characters!!!!! ?

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Linda

Lamb by Christopher Moore.

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Julie

Funny in Farsi

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Margaret

Bettyville by George Hoffman, When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris..and everything else by David Sedaris..he’ll have you laughing in no time!!!

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Marla

Sister Grimm books or Longmire books!

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Beth

Where’d You Go Bernadette?

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Kristi

Same here

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Ryan

Sex drugs and Cocoa Puffs.

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Lisa

How To Be A Woman by Caitlin Moran, parts of it about made me fall out of my chair.

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Angela

“I Must Say” by Martin Short

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Kimberly

The Professor von Igelfeld series by Alexander McCall Smith. The books are short, and I fell off the couch from laughing so hard.

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Vickie

The Help

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Treesa

The Sunburnef Cpuntry

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Ellie

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

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Cindy

Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg!

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Renee

*following for suggestions

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Kris

The great thing about this dialog is all the books I’ve read which come back to life as people post their favorites. Forgot about Fried Green Tomatoes. Brings back memories of a different time and place.

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Michele

I just remembered how funny Erma Bombeck was. Not a novel but, “If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries What Am I Doing In the Pits” was laugh out loud funny.

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Sheila

Following

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Toni

Anything by David Sedaris.

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Beth

Laurie Notaro is another hilarious writer. I loved There’s a (Slight) Chance I Might Be Going to Hell. Another good book from her is The Idiot Girl and the Flaming Tantrum of Death: Reflections on Revenge, Germophobia, and Laser Hair Removal

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Trish

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. All of Douglas Adams’ books.

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Margarete

James Thurber’s short stories.

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Dorrick

Trevor Noah’s Born A crime.

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Kirsten

Where’d you go bernadette

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Deb

“Tricky Business” by Dave Berry

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StacyQuestion author

I should have said “novel” rather than “book.” Do you notice that a lot of the ones listed are nonfiction? I wonder why that is.

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Joy

I am not a fan of non fiction,,,I do find we learn a lot reading novels about different places, wars, et

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StacyQuestion author

I like non-fiction as well as fiction, but I want to see more funny fiction in the world. It seems important…and I just enjoy it.

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Mollie

Up the Down Staircase.

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Kim

I constantly laughed out loud while reading my daughter’s copy of ‘Magnus Chase’. My husband looked at me like I was crazy. ?

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Mollie

Laugh out loud funny? The Yogi book by Yogi Berra. Read it on the plane and the guy next to me was laughing at me laughing. I finished it and handed the book to him.

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Chris

Me Talk Pretty by David Sedaris

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Katie

Not a physical book – audio only, but the How to Be Super series by Sparkle Stories. He’s a fantastic storyteller, and I’ve laughed until I cried at parts.

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Fran

Enter Laughing by Carl Reiner , had to stop reading it on the subway because I would burst into laughter.

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Lisa

I have a first edition of that book, and I brought it to a book signing event with Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks in San Francisco in 1998. When I finally got up to meet them, Mr. Reiner was so happy that I had it with me. He commented that I may have been the only person that bought the book (obviously not true), and then wrote an inscription, “Dear Lisa, I love you! Carl Reiner” A book and inscription I will cherish forever.

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Fran

Awesome

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Mary

Bill Bryson. A Walk in the Woods

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Darl

Kotzwinkle’s two E.T books!

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Denise

The Meaning of Liff

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Rachel

I am reading catch 22 right now…….I have been cracking up on that

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Joy

Watch the movie.. it was great..made in the ‘80 s with Alan Arkin

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Bethany

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris

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Katie

Following

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Laurice

The Color of Magic by Sir Terry Pratchett

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Christina

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

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Chrismae

The Road to Little Dribbling by Bill Bryson

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Jo

Yes! It falls in my category of The Best Worst Book I have ever read. The Pink Carnation

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Lisa

The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific by J. Maarten Troost

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Victoria

I Don’t Know How She Does It, by Allison Pearson, made me laugh.

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Kari

Bossypants by Tina Fey and I Feel Bad about my Neck by Nora Efron

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Ellen

I laughed out loud reading Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine. Funny and Sad parts. Also Talking As Fast As I Can by Lauren Graham.

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Grace

Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories…..Gene Shepherd.

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Alison

Bridget Jones’ Diary
A Walk in the Woods

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Joy

Saw the movie.. it wasn’t very good

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Alison

@Joy the book is hysterical.

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Cathy

Stench of Honolulu by Jack Handy

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Brenda

A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson

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Wesley

The Help

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Ramani

Theft by Finding by David Sedaris

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Janet

Has to be ANY Erma Bombeck book!!! ???

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Jamie

And one of her literary idols Jean Kerr. ??

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Ti

The Undomesticated Goddess (Sophie Kinsella)

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Katherine

Tortilla flat

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Alana

P.S. I Love You made laugh so hard and then I cried hard too

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Sonya

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul…. I know it’s a children’s book, but my fifth graders convinced me to read the series and although they are all good this one is my favorite!!!

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Diane

The Accidental Tourist.

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Kim

Just about any of the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich.

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Ali

I laughed out loud in parts of Lonesome Dove and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, even some in The Book Thief and of course Harry Potter.

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Jessica

Faking It by Jennifer Cruise

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Katie

Audiobook versions of both Bossypants -Tina Fey and Yes Please- Amy Poehler…they read their own books!